{"id":198004,"date":"2007-12-21T00:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T05:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/21\/swedish-company-tests-hyper-velocity-missile\/"},"modified":"2007-12-21T00:16:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T05:16:00","slug":"swedish-company-tests-hyper-velocity-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/21\/swedish-company-tests-hyper-velocity-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish Company Tests Hyper Velocity Missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s supposed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A891cbda4-6d33-4c95-8058-6b3c5a11e041\">be able to achieve Mach 5.5 at sea level<\/a>, that&#8217;s about 4200 miles per hour.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pobox.com\/~msaroff\/hvm.jpg\" \/><br \/>The article makes the suggestion that this might have been designed to be used with a multi transmitter anti-stealth radar system.  Basically, you would target the missile on coordinates, and have no terminal guidance, so a shorter flight time would reduce error from the target changing course.<\/p>\n<p>It would also be a potent anti-tank weapon, relying on kinetic energy for a kill, but it does appear to be a bit large for that application, as the 45 kg CKEM and 5 foot long(see picture below) can destroy any known armored vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The Saab-Bofors vehicle appears to be at least twice that size.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pobox.com\/~msaroff\/ckem.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s supposed to be able to achieve Mach 5.5 at sea level, that&#8217;s about 4200 miles per hour. The article makes the suggestion that this might have been designed to be used with a multi transmitter anti-stealth radar system. Basically, you would target the missile on coordinates, and have no terminal guidance, so a shorter &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1006,1180,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-military","category-missiles","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}